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Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00011

Abstract Louis Cook discusses his father's emigration from Russia and describes Jewish life on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado in the early 1900s. He also discusses Cook's Russian Bath House that his parents Harry and Ida operated and the Cook's Bath baseball team, the early Hebrew Education Alliance, and his early career as a newsboy. Louis Cook was born May 8, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, where he lived all of his life. He married Susie Finer in 1918. Cook was one of the founders of the Hebrew...

Dates: 1977 July 6

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 1

Oral History Interview with Rae Weiss, 1979 August

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00017

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Topics covered: Came to Denver from Newark, New Jersey, parents died young and she lived with grandmother, came to Denver on her own, siblings followed, lived on Westside but moved to Eastside, married, community life.

Dates: 1979 August

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Beth Israel Residents / Box 8

Oral History Interview with Sam Boscoe, 1978 April 2-16

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00022

Abstract Sam Boscoe recalls growing up as a young boy on West Colfax Street on Denver, Colorado's west side. He details his family's early ventures into the bakery business and the establishment of Star Bread Co., previously Star Bakery. He also discusses his time in the U.S. Army during World War II, and describes his memories of the 1913 Denver snowstorm and the 100-year flood of 1965. Sam Boscoe was born in Denver in 1905. His father was Jacob Boscoe (European name was Boscowitz), the founder of...

Dates: 1978 April 2-16

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 1

Oral History Interview with Sophie Stillman, 1979 August

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00025

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Topics covered: Lived in a poor village in Russia, mother would buy and sell chickens and eggs and father cattle, did housework in Russia, no opportunities there; brother came straight to Denver and worked in cattle; she came to US through NY, took train to Denver; she worked in a cigar factory, took some night school but quit, learned English from brother’s children; married, had 4 children, left husband but didn't divorce him; always lived on West Side, religious life.

Dates: 1979 August

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Beth Israel Residents / Box 8

West End Press, No. 1, 1934 February 16

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Identifier: B121.02.0019.0001.00001

Abstract Inaugural issue. ''Truth and accuracy are the only masters The West End Press will have. It is not a newspaper designed to make much money. Rather it is intended to serve well a community that long has been without a publication it could call its own. These columns will never be closed to constructive thought on any side of a question. We desire to gather and to print all the news of life as it goes on in the homes, the schools, the stores, and on the streets of our community. Opinions will...

Dates: 1934 February 16

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B121, Benjamin M. Blumberg Papers / Newspapers and Scrapbooks / Box 19 / West End Press

West End Press, No. 1, 1934 February 16

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Identifier: B121.02.0017.00001.00001

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News coverage in this issue of The West End Press includes:

Dates: 1934 February 16

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B121, Benjamin M. Blumberg Papers / Newspapers and Scrapbooks / Box 17 / Ben Blumberg Scrapbook of Newspapers

West End Press, No. 2, 1934 February 23

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Identifier: B121.02.0019.0001.00002

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Issue no. 2. News coverage includes: a government-funded storm sewer for West Colfax, and activities of the P. D. Q. Girls, Star of Denver Lodge No. 112, the Utopian Club, and the Lake Junior High School Garden Club.

Dates: 1934 February 23

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B121, Benjamin M. Blumberg Papers / Newspapers and Scrapbooks / Box 19 / West End Press

West End Press, No. 2 (February 23, 1934), 1934 February 23

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Identifier: B121.02.0017.00001.00002

Abstract News coverage in this issue of The West End Press includes: the U.S. government giving $40,000 to help repair Colfax Avenue, a change in Hebrew classes, a death from appendicitis, a girl having her 18th birthday ''ruined'' by having to undergo a surgical procedure, a Rabbi's delivery of a lecture in Yiddish, a wedding announcement for a woman by the name of Jessie Klein, a boy named Jerry Kadowitz sings patriotic songs for Washington's Birthday, and a group of children build a clubhouse in a...

Dates: 1934 February 23

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B121, Benjamin M. Blumberg Papers / Newspapers and Scrapbooks / Box 17 / Ben Blumberg Scrapbook of Newspapers

West End Press, No. 3, 1934 March 2

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Identifier: B121.02.0019.0001.00003

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Issue no. 3. News coverage includes: B'nai B'rith citizenship drive, and activities of the Guldman Community Center, Rude Center, the Gradatim Club, Phi Delta Sigma, the Pretzels, and the Young Judaea Club.

Dates: 1934 March 2

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B121, Benjamin M. Blumberg Papers / Newspapers and Scrapbooks / Box 19 / West End Press

West End Press, No. 3, 1934 March 2

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Identifier: B121.02.0017.00001.00003

Abstract

News coverage in this issue of The West End Press includes:

Dates: 1934 March 2

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B121, Benjamin M. Blumberg Papers / Newspapers and Scrapbooks / Box 17

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Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6

Oral History Interview with Rae Weiss, 1979 August

Oral History Interview with Sam Boscoe, 1978 April 2-16

Oral History Interview with Sophie Stillman, 1979 August

West End Press, No. 1, 1934 February 16

West End Press, No. 1, 1934 February 16

West End Press, No. 2, 1934 February 23

West End Press, No. 2 (February 23, 1934), 1934 February 23

West End Press, No. 3, 1934 March 2

West End Press, No. 3, 1934 March 2

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